J. F. Brandt
"at a time when neither a skeleton nor a good picture of the manati was available to me ... actually only an enhancement of the Pallas Picture"
*)translated from Brandt 1867 (see above).
1868 this new
"ideal picture"*)icon idealis - meaning: pictured from imagination was made under Brandt's supervision, who published it on page 282 of his
Symbolae sirenologicae III, now that he had available a skeleton (since 1857) and the
Middendorf Picture (since 1867, see above),
"
which is mainly based on the contour of the skeleton ... I am convinced that in general this carefully designed figure gives a fair imagination of the shape of the famous Nordic or Steller's Seacow."
*)translated from Brandt 1867
This is Brandts original drawing of the skeleton with the dotted contour, which I have enhanced to explain his idea:
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